On Friday 13 July 2012 10:01:41 Laurent Bercot wrote: > > In addition Busybox build process shall create an extra text file with > > full (and may be extended) copyright message. This file shall be > > installed under /usr/share/doc/busybox-VERSION/Copyright, and all > > system maintainers shall be forced to put this file on the final > > binary system, except if size constrains forbid this (e.g. initramfs). > > In such cases the system maintainer shall be forced to publish the > > full copyright message on a different way (e.g. web site or system > > documentation). > > Not to troll or anything, but this strikes me oddly as reinventing > the Original BSD license's advertising clause, which has been flagged > as *obnoxious* and fought so valiantly by GPL zealots: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html > > So, would that "copyright publishing obligation" be compatible with > the GPL, or would it also be deemed obnoxious ? > > Hi, I'm for keeping it simple. A notice in the binary and the full license in the source, eventually a list of the code contributors. People that wants to infringe on the license doesn't care anyway.....or will delete them.
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